[opensuse] 10.3 upgrade, mostly success, new questions
Hi all, Well, my upgrade to 10.3 was fantastically successful. Video is rock solid and I can logout/shutdown without trouble (used to crash). The system seems much faster than it was before, and wireless worked out of the box without having to get that third party driver we used to need. I do have a couple of questions though: 1) Firefox doesn't do flash anymore, even though rpm reports that the flash plugin is installed. 2) Nothing seems to play any kind of video any more. I'm used to having a fairly limited set of codecs, but I thought I should have things like mpeg out of the box. What's the deal with this these days? Where do I go for extras, how do I turn it all on (also DVD, I was using xine/libcss before, but xine seems to be gone). BTW, I installed from the single Gnome CD (x86_64) on a dual core system. I let it have wired networking, and it went online to get all the extras it needed. I restored my home directory from the backup, and even that worked without any apparent glitch, my desktop, my mail, everything seems to be back. And just coz I feel like it, may I say again, this was an amazingly complete, and trouble-free install. I'm _loving_ it. To all involved producing this, and all who have helped me get it going, many, many, thanks! Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
On 27.05.2008 at 14:48, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi all,
Well, my upgrade to 10.3 was fantastically successful. Video is rock solid and I can logout/shutdown without trouble (used to crash). The system seems much faster than it was before, and wireless worked out of the box without having to get that third party driver we used to need.
I do have a couple of questions though:
1) Firefox doesn't do flash anymore, even though rpm reports that the flash plugin is installed.
You installed a 64bit version of openSUSE. Flash plugin still does not exist as 64bit. There are multiple solutions (listed in order of stability): - change your firefox to be a 32bit application (change it using yast, select the 32bit version). I actually thought that was standard on 10.3... but who knows. - Install nspluginwrapper. It will help you use 32bit plugins in a 64bit firefox. Whereas it works mostly flawless, I encountered several moments when I had to kill the flash plugin to get control over my browser back
2) Nothing seems to play any kind of video any more. I'm used to having a fairly limited set of codecs, but I thought I should have things like mpeg out of the box. What's the deal with this these days? Where do I go for extras, how do I turn it all on (also DVD, I was using xine/libcss before, but xine seems to be gone).
All those video and audio things are pretty difficult to deal with nowadays. Depending on what you're all after, I'd (List ordered to my preferences): - Install VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html ) - Add PackMan repitory. There you find also all the things like xine and amarok, in good nice versions. Have a look at http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3 Regards, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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